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Smart Fire Extinguishing System (SFES)
(2016-11)
Most buildings in UAE are complying with the safety standards related to fire accidents to ensure safe accommodation for the residents. Hence, most buildings use water-based sprinkler system for fire extinguishing, as shown ...
Feasibility of 3D Depth Camera in the Civil Engineering Field
(2016-11)
In the civil engineering field, land surveying is the foundation of any construction process and has always been the method of choice for topographic mapping analysis. One of the latest technologies of 3D Depth Camera is ...
Sustainable and Efficient Electric Vehicle and Charging System
(2016-11)
Global warming is a major problem the world is facing, and the main contributors to it are greenhouse gases. Gas operated cars and electricity generation using fossil fuels are the major greenhouse gas emitters. So our ...
Medical Waste Management
(2016-11)
"Medical waste can be defined as waste produced by hospitals, clinics, doctors' and dentists' offices, veterinary clinics, and medical research labs." [1] 85% of Medical Waste is non-hazardous. 15% of Medical Waste is ...
Sustainable Integration of Solar Energy for Desalination
(2016-11)
Water extraction, treatment and distribution accounts for 8% of global energy consumption. Which can be estimated as ∼7MJ/m3. The main factors affecting solar desalination plant feasibility are technology maturity, economics ...
Developing an Integrated Water Management Infrastructure in Homes
(2016-11)
As the world population is predicted to increase (see figure 1), the human consumption to sources of life; such as food and water, will increase. However; the freshwater withdrawals have tripled over the last 50 years and ...
Safety Enhancement of Vehicles
(2016-11)
VANET turns every participating car into a wireless router or node, allowing cars approximately 100 to 250 meters of each
other to connect, creating a network with a wide range.[6] As cars fall out of the signal range and ...
Waste to Energy: Plasma Gasification
(2016-11)
In recent years UAE has been experiencing high population growth in parallel to its increase in economic status, to the point that each individual on average produced 2.1 kg of waste per capita per day. The consequences ...
Treatment of Underground Water Using Ozonation
(2016-11)
Today, water is being used at a rate twice the rate of the population increase. The sources of water commonly used today is groundwater and seawater. Groundwater is being depleted causing many countries to suffer of high ...
Offshore Wind Farms
(2016-11)
Reliance on non-renewable resources will cause major economic and environmental damage. Comparing with onshore wind farms, offshore winds tend to flow at higher speeds than onshore winds, and thus it allows turbines to ...